Necktie-fastener.



'No. 728,903. PATENTED MAY 26, 1903.

G. E. GLEASON. NEGKTIB FASTENBR.

APPLICATION FILED JIILY 16, 1902. I0 MODEL.

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Patented May 26, 1903.

Warren S'rnrns PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES E. GLEASON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

NECKTlE-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 728,903, dated May 26,1903.

Application filed July 16,1902. Serial No. 115,769. (No model.)

To all 1071,0771, it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES E. GLEAsoN, a citizen of the United Statesof America, and a resident of the city of New York, in the State of NewYork, have invented a new and useful Improvement in-Necktie-Fasteners,of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to button-engaging fastenings carried bynecktie-shields and adapted to more or less securely hold the necktie inplace.

The object of the present invention is to prevent the accidentaldisplacement of the fastened necktie, to adapt a resilient fastener tobe conveniently made from a single flat blank of sheet metal or anyother resilient material, and to provide for attaching the same to theshield by three or more prongs integral with the body of the fastener.

The invention consists in an improved necktie-fastener adapted to carryinto effect such objects as hereinafter set forth and claimed.

A sheet of drawings accompanies this specification as part thereof.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of anecktie-shield provided with the improved fastener, showingits front.Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the fastener detached, showing its back.Fig. 3 is a plan view of the blank of sheet metal or any other resilientmaterial in the flat.

Like letters and numbers refer to like parts in all the figures.

The improved fastener A is in use attached to the necktie-shield B asshown in Fig. 1 and as hereinafter more particularly described and isdesigned and adapted to engage the neck of an ordinary collar-button C,such as is indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1.

The fastener A is stamped from suitable resilient material, such assheet metal, in the form represented by Fig. 3, and is thus stamped inthe flat with rounded corners 1 and 2, and contiguous notches 3 and 4.are formed in the respective ends of the blank. A pair of tongues 5 and6, parallel to the upper edge of the blank, but located near its loweredge, are severed from within slots in the body, except at their innerends. A third tongue 7 projects from the upper edge of the blank, and apair of holes 8 and 9 are preferably stamped in the body to lighten itwithout impairing its efficiency. The blank. is next bent into thefinished shape of the artiole of manufacture, as represented by Fig. 2,with the prongs 5, 6, and 7 perpendicular to the back of the fastenerand the extremities 10 and 11 of the lateral edges of the blank incontact with each other, but separable from top to bottom by springingthem apart. The rounded corners 1 and 2, Fig. 3, and the notches 3 and4, Fig. 3, unite in the finished article to form a laterally-expansiblekeyholeslot a, Fig. 1, in the face of the fastener between its inturnededges and an open smaller end forming an entrance I), Fig. 1, to saidslot at the lower edge of the fastener.

The fastener A, complete as above, is attached to the back of the shieldB by passing the prongs 5, 6, and 7 through the shield and clenchingthem on its face. The necktie is attached to the face of the shield inany known or improved manner, and the device is then ready for user Thefastener A in use is engaged with an ordinary collar-button C, as inFig. 1, by a downward movement of the necktie and its shield B andtherewith of the fastener A. In this movement theopen end 6 of thekeyhole-slot a engages the shank of the collar-button, which pressesapart the edges of the fastener sufficiently to admit the shank into theround end of the slot, where it is securely retained by the resiliencyof the fastener.

The fastener may be provided with an additional pair of prongs at saidholes 8 and 9. A single hole may take the place of these holes, or theymay be wholly omitted, and other like modifications will suggestthemselves to those skilled in the art.

Having thus described said improvement, I claim as my invention anddesire to patent under this specification- 1. Abutton-engagingnecktie-fastenerconstructed of resilient sheet materialin one piece, and having inturned lateral edges separable from top tobottom by springing them apart and forming between them alaterallyexpansible keyhole-slot, open at its smaller end.

2. Abutton-engaging n'ecktie-fastenerconstructed of resilient sheetmaterial in one piece, and having inturned lateral edges separable fromtop to bottom by springing them apart and forming between them alaterallyexpansible keyhole-slot open at its smaller end through thelower edge of the fastener.

3. Abutton-engagingnecktie-fastenerconstructed of resilient sheetmaterial in one piece, and having inturned lateral edges sepi arablefrom top to bottom by springing them apart, forming between them alaterally-expansible keyhole-slot, open at its smaller end, andconstructed with attaching-prongs integral with the body of thefastener.

4. Anecktie-fastener, formed of resilient sheet material, in one piece,having inturned lateral edges, rounded and notched to form an open-endedand laterally-expansible keyhole-slot, and constructed withattachingprongs, integral with the body of the fastener, projectingrespectively from the inner ends of slots in the body of the fastener,and from its upper edge, substantially as hereinbefore specified.

CHARLES E. GLEASON. Witnesses:

JOHN A. DAVIDSON, E. B. FERNALD.

